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Chief economist update: Hong Kong is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... the National People's Congress (NPC) held on May 22, Premier Li Keqiang announced its intent to improve national security in Hong Kong (if it sounds familiar, it is, for this is the same "excuse" US President Trump used when he raised tariffs on ...

Chief economist update: Are capital markets the next Sino-US battleground?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
... markets will not be simple, and could be challenged" but what's stopping Trump from invoking the interest of "national security" as he did with the lifting of tariffs. The bottomline, a de-escalation of the trade war between Washington and Beijing ...

Chief economist update: Wheels of US recession in motion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... monetary policy will be returned to normal. Then Trump had to say something stupid like "tariffs" in the name of "national security" and since March 2018, global insecurity has grown to the point that it has boomeranged to America: "And now 'tis ...

Investors raise alarm on Facebook

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... corporate citizens and to simply make sure their products are safe here in Australia and don't risk our national security." Meanwhile, the New Zealand government has acted to make viewing and sharing the video illegal. He explained that depending ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... President got away with imposing the 25/10 tariff on steel and aluminium by coating the move as a matter of "national security". The Fed's fresh iteration of being "data dependent" - a given for all central banks on the planet - means zilch given ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... earlier giveth, announcing a 25% tariff on foreign steel and a 10% tariff on foreign aluminium in the name of "national security" that begot retaliatory tariffs from China, Canada, Japan, the European Union and Mexico, among others. Australia was exempted. ...

Chief economist update: What goes around is starting to get around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... that a trade war is a lose-lose proposition. In his quest to "make America great again" and under the guise of "national security", US President Donald Trump kicked off with a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium imported into America, followed by ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... Eurozone has dissipated, US President Donald Trump's trade protectionist policy in the name of American national security comes back to haunt. Not that it left anyway for at the same time that Italy's political crisis was reaching boiling point ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal exemplified

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... so it comes to pass. US President Donald Trump did what he promised he would. "Today I'm defending America's national security by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminium...we will have a 25% tariff on foreign steel and a 10% tariff ...

Chief economist update: Trump spoils for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... prioritise a Department of Commerce investigation initiated last night into the effects of steel imports on US national security." This, a week later (27 April 2017): "Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a presidential memorandum calling on Secretary ...